Cursed Questions. On Music and Its Social Practices, Paperback - Richard Taruskin

DescriptionRichard Taruskin's sweeping collection of essays distills a half century of professional experience, demonstrating an unparalleled insid...

Features thirty-six essays on composers ranging from Bortnyansky in the eighteenth century to Tarnopolsky in the twenty-first, as well as all of th...

The universally acclaimed and award-winning Oxford History of Western Music is the eminent musicologist Richard Taruskin's provocative, erudite tel...

Essays on and around art and art practices by the author of I Love Dick.A border isn't a metaphor. Knowing each other for over a decade makes us wi...

This classic ethnomusicological survey provides a valuable guide to African music. The essays review a broad swath of genres and topics, including ...

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Collects material from mid-1970s through 2010 to trace the evolution of ethnomusicological thinking about women, gender, and music, offering a pers...

Drawing on the history of architecture, media theory, cultural anthropology, and urban studies, Best Practices pairs photographic documentation wit...

DescriptionPercussionist and researcher Jeff Strong embarks on a three-decade journey into the power of musical rhythm. Different Drummer chronicle...

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This book offers a comprehensive survey of the history and the development of Arab music and musical theory from its pre-Islamic roots until 1970, ...

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Why is political rhetoric broken-and how can it be fixed? Ranging from Cicero's Rome to modern polarization, Words on Fire is a new history of eloq...

Reducere. There is accruing evidence which indicates that actively making music can contribute to the enhancement of a range of non-musical skills and lead t...

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Publisher: How2become LtdAuthor(s): Richard McMunnNumber of pages: 200Collection: Testing SeriesPublication date: 2014Dimensions: 244 x 170 x 7Cove...

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Reducere. The role of music in the evolution of humanity - Reveals how a hierarchy of initiates, evolved spiritual intelligences, and devas actively influenc...

Scholarly Research in Music: Shared and Disciplinary-Specific Practices, Second Edition offers a comprehensive and detailed guide to engaging in re...

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Publisher: How2become LtdAuthor(s): Richard McMunnNumber of pages: 100Collection: Testing SeriesPublication date: 2014Dimensions: 171 x 242 x 6Cove...

Publisher: How2become LtdAuthor(s): Richard McMunnNumber of pages: 150Collection: Testing SeriesPublication date: 2012Dimensions: 242 x 163 x 9Cove...

This text critically examines changes in Ghanaian language and literacy policy following independence in 1957 to consider its impacts on early lite...

This overview of the essentials of Yoga is meant to both broaden and deepen the understanding of beginning students. It covers all the basic elemen...

Summarizing this century's major debates over realism and the rationality of scientific knowledge, Joseph Rouse believes that these disputes oversi...

The main objective of this book is to propose a new interactive educational radio model for Turkey. Thus, educational, community and university-bas...

DescriptionThe Handbook of Research on K-12 Online and Blended Learning is an edited collection of chapters that sets out to present the current st...

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Reducere. Among the few truly experimental composers in our cultural history, Harry Partch's life (1901-1974) and music embody most completely the quintessen...

Publisher: How2become LtdAuthor(s): Richard McMunnNumber of pages: 219Collection: Testing SeriesPublication date: 2014Dimensions: 246 x 161 x 12Cov...

The contents of the book center on concepts of organizational development towards effective change and practice.

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This book discusses the impact of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages and its Companion Volume on curricula, teaching/learning...

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